HouseTrack vs Hours Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HouseTrack
This app provides intelligent energy management for homes and businesses. It visualizes energy usage, identifies patterns, and helps control appliances to optimize cost savings and avoid bill surprises. Real-time data on power consumption, EV charging, and solar production is available.
- Real-time energy usage visualization
- Circuit-by-circuit analysis
- Appliance and device control
- EV charging and solar production monitoring
- Bill surprise avoidance
- Weekly energy insights and tips
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HouseTrack is the key to managing your energy usage. The most powerful and intelligent system for visualizing and managing energy in residential and commercial settings, it automatically identifies energy usage patterns so you can avoid bill surprises, control your appliances, and optimize cost savings. Through sensors that connect in your breaker panel, HouseTrack analyses your electrical usage on a circuit-by-circuit basis, 63 times a second, giving you real-time information about your home’s power consumption, electrical vehicle charging, solar production, or that stove that someone left on. When integrated with Samsung’s SmartThings ecosystem, HouseTrack enables users to connect with and remotely control hundreds of appliances and devices in your home. HouseTrack shows you what’s driving the cost of your electric bill, pinpoints problem areas, and can send notifications about abnormal energy use. Never be surprised by an electric bill again! Free weekly insights and tips are provided to make your home smarter, more energy efficient, and safer.
Hours Tracker
Easily plan shifts, track work hours, and calculate earnings with this intuitive app. Designed for shift workers and freelancers, it offers a clear calendar view, live time tracking, and detailed summaries of your work and pay.
- Shift planning calendar
- Live time clock in/out
- Automatic pay calculation
- Overtime tracking
- Detailed work summaries
- Shift templates
- Data export
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Hours Tracker: Shift Clock In helps you plan shifts, track work hours, calculate pay, and stay on top of your schedule in one simple app. Built for shift workers, freelancers, hourly employees, nurses, contractors, and anyone who wants a clearer view of work hours and earnings, Hours Tracker makes it easy to manage every shift from start to finish. PLAN SHIFTS WITH A CLEAR CALENDAR • Add, edit, and organize shifts in seconds • View your work schedule in a clean monthly calendar • See shifts by dots or labels • Color-code shifts by status, employer, or tags • Create weekly repeating shifts • Track overnight shifts that cross midnight CLOCK IN AND TRACK TIME LIVE • Start work with one tap • See your worked time update in real time • Start and stop breaks while working • Add notes, tips, tags, and location during a shift • Keep the timer running even when the app is closed • View your live shift on the Lock Screen with Live Activities TRACK HOURS, PAY, TIPS, AND OVERTIME • Log hourly rates, breaks, and tips • Calculate earnings automatically • Set daily and weekly overtime rules • Add overtime multipliers and weekend premiums • View total hours, overtime hours, shift count, and pay at a glance • Keep track of pay periods and see time remaining until payday SEE YOUR WORK WITH DETAILED SUMMARIES • Weekly, monthly, and yearly summaries • Interactive charts for hours, earnings, and shifts • Employer breakdowns for time and income • Compare current and previous pay periods • Understand your work patterns more clearly BUILT FOR REAL SHIFT WORK • Multiple shift types including work, overtime, split shifts, holiday, sickness, and day off • Unlimited employers • Custom tags for shift types like training, night shift, or on-call • Shift templates for faster planning • Notifications for shift start, shift end, and pay periods WIDGETS, ICLOUD, EXPORT, AND BACKUP • Home Screen widgets for today's shift, next shift, weekly hours, and earnings • iCloud sync across your Apple devices • Export shifts to PDF and CSV • Full backup and restore support PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data stays under your control. • No ads • No tracking SDKs • No analytics collection • No IDFA tracking • Your data is stored on your device and in your own iCloud account when sync is enabled PREMIUM FEATURES Upgrade to unlock: • Live Timer / Clock In • Shift Templates Whether you need a shift calendar, work hours tracker, pay calculator, timesheet app, or schedule planner, Hours Tracker: Shift Clock In gives you a fast and flexible way to manage your working life. Download now and keep every shift, hour, and payday organized. Terms of Use (EULA): https://ern.digital/shifttracker/terms Privacy Policy: https://ern.digital/shifttracker/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HouseTrack at none against Hours Tracker's 4. HouseTrack also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). Hours Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Hours Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. HouseTrack asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HouseTrack against 5.0 for Hours Tracker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
HouseTrack ships an update every 6 weeks, Hours Tracker every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HouseTrack | Hours Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Curb, Inc. | Eren Arda Carboga |
Customer experience
HouseTrack
Hours Tracker
In-app purchases
HouseTrack
No in-app purchases
Hours Tracker
- Weekly Premium3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Weekly Premium7 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Yearly Premium$19.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$34.99
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